642 ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



creased as soon as practicable to an amount commensurate with the 

 character of the service and the efficiency witli wliicli it is performed. 

 A treneral increase in the salaries of tlie editorial assistants is 

 earnestly recommended. They have been rendering conspicuously 

 efficient service for years without promotion. There is not one of 

 them who does not save the amount of his salary by economies 

 effected in the publication work during the year. 



PUBLICATIONS ISSUED DURING THE YEAR. 



The list of publications issued during the year has been prepared 

 with unusual care. It contains a considerable number of adminis- 

 trative and minor publications not listed in earlier reports of this 

 Division. The list is, therefore, more complete than heretofore. 



PnhUcatinns <* issued during the year ended June 30, 1910. hy the U. 8. Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture: Class, title, author, size, price {if any), date of issue, 

 editions, and total number of copies. 



OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY. 



CONGRESSIONAL. 



New Publications. 



Copies Copies 



for for 



Department. Congress. 

 Annual Reports: 



Annual Reports of the Department of Agriculture for the 

 Year ended June 30, 1909. (Report of the Secretary of 

 Agriculture and Reports of Chiefs.) S59 pp. May 24__ 50 3,237 



Yearbook of the United States Department of Agriculture 



for 1908. 822 pp. $1.25. Aug. 12 30,000 332,024 



Yearbook of the United States Department of Agriculture 

 fo.' 1909. 652 pp. $1. Apr. 25 30,000 382,000 



Annual Report of the OtRce of Experiment Stations for 

 year ended June 30, 1908. 417 pp. Cloth, 60 cents. 

 Sept. 23 3,000 3,545 



Twenty-Fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of Animal 



Industry, 1907. 4S6 pp. Cloth, 85 cents. Oct. 5 1, 503 



Twenty-Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of Animal In- 

 dustry, 1908. 502 pp. Cloth, 70 cents. Mar. 15 6,500 25,671 



Report of the Secretary of Agriculture, 1909. James Wil- 

 son. 169 pp. Dec. 6 5,000 



Field Operations of the Bureau of Soils, 1907. (Ninth Re- 

 port.) By Milton Whitney, Chief, with accompanying 

 papers by assistants in charge of field parties. 1.062 

 pp., pis. 54. figs. 35. maps 35 (in pocket). Cloth, $4.50; 

 without maps, $1. Sept. 2 1, 500 3, 604 



Report of the Weather Bureau for year ended June 30, 



1908. 397 pp. 80 cents. Dec. 26 1, 000 2, 999 



« Persons ordering publications from this list should note carefully the fol- 

 lowing: Farmers' Bulletins are for free distribution by the Members of both 

 branches of Congress and by the Secretary of Agriculture. The same may be 

 said of Soil Survey Advance Sheets. Circulars, Yearbook Extracts, Reports of 

 Chiefs, and other Department publications for which no price is named are for 

 free distribution by this Department so long as the editions last. Orders for 

 Congressional publications for which no price is given should be addressed to 

 Members of Congress. All orders for BulMins and other priced publications 

 should be addressed to the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing 

 Office, Washington, D. C, and the amount of the price should be inclosed in the 

 form of a postal money order. Stamps will not be accepted. Cash will be 

 accepted, but the sender must stand the risk cf loss. 



